Where does “virtauskenno” come from?

virtauskenno (Finnish) comes from Finnish virtaus, from Finnish virrata, from Finnish -ta, from Proto-Finnic -ta, from Proto-Uralic -tä — from.

virtauskenno (Finnish): flow cell

Definitions

  1. flow cell

Ancestry of “virtauskenno”, step by step

virtauskenno traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish virtaus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishvirtauscurrent
2Finnishvirratato flow, stream
3Finnish-taA suffix for the partitive singular case; Forms...
4Proto-Finnic-taPartitive ending
5Proto-Uralic-täfrom

via Finnish kenno

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkennohoneycomb, a cell in a honeycomb; cell; Short for...
2Proto-Finnickenno
3Proto-Germanichennǭ
Every word from Proto-Uralic -tä